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Seize the Day.

New York: The Viking Press, 1956.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For the Gabels from their...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-114568

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Hammerstein, Oscar

Carmen Jones.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945.

First edition of this classic play. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Wolfe, with gratitude for all he did to succes...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-116745

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McCarthy, Cormac

The Stonemason: A Play In Five Acts.

Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1994.

First edition of this expansively imagined drama about four generations of an American family. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half-title page. Additionally signed...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150948

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[Kerouac, Jack; Jean-Pierre Lemaire]

RUpTure.

Paris, France: Printed at 21 Rue de Saintonge, 1965.

Rare vintage January 1965 issue of RUpTure, a left-leaning French-language literary magazine, gifted to and personally owned by Beatnik writer Jack Kerouac. Oblong octavo, written in French, original...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150642

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O'Brien, Tim

Northern Lights.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1975.

First edition of the author’s second book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page as follows, “Peace Tim O’Brien “I guess we’re really brothers, aren’t we? Do...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-940

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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Signed Photograph.

:, 1984.

Rare photograph portrait of Mother Teresa boldly signed, “God bless you M. Teresa mc.” In fine condition. The piece measures 5 inches by 7 inches.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147287

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[Parrish, Maxfield] SAUNDERS, Louise

The Knave of Hearts.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1925.

First edition of “one of the greatest of American illustrated books” (Porter, 84), the last and most lavish children’s book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish, with mounted cover design...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133869

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Miami and Pottawatomie Indian Treaty Collection.

Washington: Various Publishers, 1828-1826.

Rare collection of Congressional Reports the Miami and Pottawatomie Indian Treaties. Octavo, 7 reports bound in modern paper wrappers or disbound. The collection includes: Treaty with Eel River Indian...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-135497

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Hughes, Langston

Laughing To Keep From Crying.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1952.

First edition of Hughes’ second major collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper,...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-61051

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Roosevelt, Eleanor; Jawaharlal Nehru; Indira Gandhi; Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Eleanor Roosevelt, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Signed Photograph.

Hyde Park, NY:, c. 1949.

Rare original black and white photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt with three Indian dignitaries Jahwaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and Vijaya Pandit at the Franklin D. Roosevelt gravesite at Hyde Park. Neh...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148419

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Williams, Tennessee

The Night of the Iguana.

New York: New Directions, 1962.

First edition of this powerfully compassionate play. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruli...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149896

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Kipling, Rudyard

Debits and Credits.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.

First edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s most sorrowful collections. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, black stamped ship vignette to the fron...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-140953

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Kaufman, George S., Leueen MacGrath and Abe Burrows. Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter

Silk Stockings Original Musical Script.

New York: Tams-Witmark Music Library, .

Rare original Silk Stockings shooting script with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Quarto, original black Hart Stenographic Bureau leatherette wrappers bound and bradded. In near fine condition. Annot...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-110658

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Dennett, Daniel C

Content and Consciousness: An Analysis of Mental Phenomena.

London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969.

First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Annie- Daniel C. Dennett 3/5/23.” Also laid in is a note fro...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145503

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Lowell, Thomas. [W.E.B. Dubois; David Lloyd George]

Rolling Stone: The Life and Adventures of Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933.

Early printing of the definitive biography of Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations from photographs and paintings by Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore. Association copy, inscribed on...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144351

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Oliver, Mary

The River Styx, Ohio and Other Poems.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1972.

First edition of the author’s second collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robin Forbes. First editions are uncommon.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146637

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Edwards, Brian

Thoughts on the late Proceedings of Government, Respecting the Trade of the West India Islands with the United States of North America.

London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1784.

Rare Second edition, corrected and enlarged, of this pamphlet arguing that restricting trade between the British West Indies and the newly independent United States would devastate the Caribbean sugar...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151142

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King, Stephen

The Dead Zone.

New York: The Viking Press, 1979.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the 1983 thriller film directed by David Cronenberg. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Stephen King on the title page. Near fine in a near fin...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147101

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Morgan, John Pierpont [J.P.]

John Pierpont Morgan Autograph Signature.

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Rare autograph signature from American financier and banker John Pierpont Morgan. Boldly signed in ink on an off-white slip clipped from a document, “J. Pierpont Morgan.” In fine condition...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148494

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Maurer, David W

The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1940.

First edition of this classic study of con men, basis for the film The Sting directed by George Roy Hill starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford and Robert Shaw. Octavo, original cloth. Review copy, w...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146060

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Goldoni, Carlo

Nuovo Teatro Comico Dell’Avvocato Carlo Goldoni Poeta Di S. A. R. Il Serenissimo Infante di Spagna Don Filippo Duca Di Parma, Piacenza, Guastalla, ec. [New Comic Theater of the Lawyer Carlo Goldoni].

Venezi: Francesco Pitteri, 1753-1755.

Rare complete set of Pitteri’s 1757 printing of Goldoni’s works of comic theater. Octavo, ten volumes bound in full vellum with gilt tooling to the spine, engraved frontispiece portrait of...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-129035

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Chagall, Marc; Text and Notes by Jean Leymarie

Jerusalem Windows.

New York: George Braziller, 1962.

First edition. Folio, original red cloth. With two original color lithographs specially prepared by Chagall for this edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Contains the rarely seen original slipcase, al...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-4235

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Phelps, Edmund S

Golden Rules of Economic Growth: Studies of Efficient and Optimal Investment.

New York: W.W. Norton & Norton Company, Inc., 1966.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s first book, a collection of twelve essays in mathematical economics. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Edmund Phelps on the title page. Slip...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-2375

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Aristotle. Translated by Theodoro Gaza

Aristotelis De Historia Animalium Libri. IX. [Bound with] De Partibus Animalium, & Earu Causis, Libri IIII; De Generatione Animalium Libri V; Hoc Volumine Continentur.

Parisiis: Ex officina Prigentii Caluarini ad Geminas Cyppas in Clauso Brunello, 1542.

Rare 16th century French printing of Aristotle’s pioneering work on zoology which had a powerful influence on zoology for over two thousand years. Octavo, bound in full polished calf, engraved t...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133014

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